Breakfast Cake

1/2 cup softened butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2/3 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 tsp cinnamon
2/3 cup brown sugar

1.  Cream butter and sugar
2. Add eggs and beat until creamy.
3. Mix  flour, baking powder, and salt together.
4. Add some of the flour and then some of the milk,  Keep alternating adding the flour mixture and the milk until they are all added.
5. Add vanilla.
6. Spread batter evenly in the bottom of a 9 x 13 pan.
7. Mix 1/4 cup butter, cinnamon and brown sugar together.
8. Sprinkle over the batter as best you can.  Sometimes it is just globs on the batter, that's okay.
9. Bake at 350 F for 25-30 minutes. 

Zina's Chili

1 pound ground beef
1 medium onion, chopped
3 stalks celery, chopped
3 8 oz cans tomato sauce
1 large can stewed tomatoes (I use a quart jar of my bottled tomatoes.) Pour off most of the water.
2 cans of kidney beans
2 cans of red beans
1 1/2 tsp Salt
1 tsp black pepper
1 Tbsp Chili powder

1. Brown the ground beef.
2. While there is still some pink in the meat, add the celery and onion.  Continue browning the meat.
3. Add the salt and pepper.  Taste the meat at this time to make sure you have enough seasoning.
4.  Add the chili powder. 
5. Add the tomato sauce and the tomatoes.  Let this cook on low heat for at least 15 minutes, stirring occasionally so it doesn't burn.
6. Add the beans, both kinds.  Stir them in well and let then simmer on a very low heat for about 10 minutes.  If you like your chili spicier taste it and add more chili or other hot spices.

This should make about 5 quarts of chili.

Navajo Taco Dough

1 cup warm water (110-115 degrees F.)
1 Tbsp yeast
1 Tbsp honey
3+ cups flour
1 Tbsp oil
1 tsp salt

1. Put the yeast in the bottom of a bowl.
2. Add the honey.
3. Slowly pour in the warm water.
4. Let it set for about 5 minutes.
5. Add 2 cups of the flour. Start mixing with a mixer. Add the oil.
6. Mix for about 10 minutes
7. Let the dough rest for 5 minutes
8. Start the mixer again and slowly add the other cup of flour and the salt.  Keep mixing until the dough is no longer sticky.  You will want to stop the mixer and lightly touch the dough.  If it doesn't stick to your finger and it bounces back really well, it is ready.  If not, add a little more flour (about 1/4 cup at a time) until the dough responds well.
9.  Let the dough rise for 10-15 minutes and then you can start making the tacos.

I like to take a gob of dough that is about 1 1/2 inches diameter.  Butter or grease your hands first.  Flatten the ball a little bit and then start from the center and push the dough to the outside.  Keep rotating the dough around, being careful not to put holes in it.  When it is the right thickness (1/4 to 1/3 inch thick)  You can either put if on a cloth while you make the others or start frying them.  Oil should be between 350 -400 F.